What is up with caucasian people having blonde hair as a kid and brown hair as adults?

[miri]

I was looking at old pictures of my wife as a child and she had blonde hair. She is now a brunette. I remember a lot of my old friends had blond hair as a kid that later turned brown. What causes blonde hair to change to brown as a person gets older?

 

[NutBucket]

Didn't wash it enough?


OK, ok, that was a terrible joke but all I can contribute to this thread.

 

[artikk]

Maybe age or genes

 

[Slick5150]

I'm in that category. Very light blond hair as a kid, now it's a dark brown. Don't know why.

 

[rickn]

your genes.

 

[tomt4535]

i used to have really blonde hair when i was little. im 18 now and i have dark brown hair. i dunno why.

 

[NathanBWF]

I had dirty blonde hair when I was young, now it's dark brown. No idea why. Lots of people are like that...

 

[CraigRT]

I was exactly the same, blonde hair/blue eyes when I was young... now I am brown/brown.... weird.

 

[PanzerIV]

I'm one of those kids. Hair was very blonde when I was little now it's a medium brown. I am glad it didn't stay blonde, actually.

 

[halik]

same here,
i had really blond hair and now im halfway to black. Must be one of those crazy white-people things

 

[Ogg]

i dont know, me and my son are afflicted:Q

 

[ElFenix]

were you outside much as a kid? a lot of people go sun-blond very easily

 

[Lola]

i dunno, but i was a toe head when i was young and i am still blonde now just a bit darker now. i always thought it was from being out in the sun

 

[Brutuskend]

It's because a lot of people are stupid when they're kids.

They get older, they get smarter and the hair color changes appropriately.

(my theory at any rate!)

 

[Argo]

My brother was like that. I on the other hand had black hair my whole life.

 

[Bryophyte]

My dad and my brother had light light blond hair (almost white!) as as very young children. Dad's hair turned black by the time he was an adult, brother's hair turned out to be brown. Mine was a little lighter blonde when I was younger. My son's hair at 8 is dark blond/light brown, he was blond as a baby/toddler. Don't know how dark his will get, my spouse has darker brown hair (what's left of it, anyway, hehehe.)

 

[KnickNut3]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
were you outside much as a kid? a lot of people go sun-blond very easily

I am the same as most posters on this board. Yes, I believe short hair and lots of time in the sun had something to do with it, but there was a noticable color change otherwise. I was a pure blonde from age 3-7 or so...

 

[Kenazo]

I was light blond/green eyes as a kid. Now I'm dark blond/green-blue eyes.

 

[Hammer]

its genetic, my family on my father's side is like this

 

[rmrf]

the same thing happened to my wife, although, she started out as a dirty blonde, now her hair is very dark.

 

[rickn]

hair is sort of a mystery. if we understood it there would be no bald men. hair follicles are an organ, and they have stem cells. as we age the pigment changes, could be your genes, could be the effects of increased DHT as we progress into puberty and into adulthood, or combinations of both -- or something else totally different

 

[Amused]

I was blond as a kid, but changed to brown in my pre-teen years and it got darker every year until it was dark brown.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Hard livin'.

 

[Ryan]

I had bright blond hair as a child - now it's brown.....

 

[djheater]

I'm trying to find something on why this happens... it could be that it's not well know why this happens, at least that's what this paper indicates...

/keeps looking